What is powering precision health?

The Powering Precision Health movement represents the intersection of new technological capabilities with the latest medical research, ushering in a new era of medicine: precision health. “Precision health” aims to transform how we approach health, from scrambling to cure diseases after the fact, to prevention or detection of disease long before symptoms appear and the disease is most curable. ‘Precision’ means personalized treatments rather than treatments based on population averages, targeted to maximize efficacy and minimize toxicity. Precision health also means recognition and elimination of environmental and lifestyle factors to minimize disease triggers in the first place. We believe we now have the capability to measure and monitor biomarkers as personal indicators of good health and ‘early warnings’ of adverse trends. Leveraging new technologies for personal health monitoring is a key facet of precision health. The Powering Precision Health movement held it's inaugural Summit in 2016.

Our movement brings together innovators, scientists, physicians, medical professionals, advocates, government officials, regulators to collectively address this enormous opportunity. By working together with disruptive innovation, we can have a profound positive impact on our society by eliminating premature pain and suffering brought on by unnecessary disease. Our journey is just beginning but we are all extremely committed and the pace of progress is unprecedented!